Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:27:55 +0100 | From | Luis Miguel García <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] acpi problem with nforce motherboards and ethernet |
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David Ford wrote:
> I have the same problem. I "solved" it a while ago by mucking with > the AGP stuff. IIRC, it was turning off AGP fast writes or 8x or > something similar in cmos. Went from incredibly broken to stable > instantly. I'll check my cmos settings in a bit and refresh my memory. > > What patches are you using?
I'm using nforce2-apic.patch and nforce2-disconnect-quirk.patch that Andrew Morton have sent to me. I think they have been included in previous mm kernels but now are droped because they caused some temperature problems for some people with no nforce motherboards.
If you want it, I can send it to you.
By the way, is anyone involved in solving the IO-APIC thing in nforce motherboards? Anyone trying a different approach? Anyone contacting nvidia about this problem?
> p.s. reiserfs is pretty useless against crashes. hundreds of files > around the harddrive get messed up everytime the machine locks > up...files that haven't been used in weeks, as well as files opened > read-only, i.e. libraries.
I don't think this could be a reiserfs problem, because all the computer gets frezzed and locked, but perhaps someone at Namesys can realize why files gets deleted all over the hard disc.
Thanks.
Luis Miguel Garcia
> > p.s. reiserfs is pretty useless against crashes. hundreds of files > around the harddrive get messed up everytime the machine locks > up...files that haven't been used in weeks, as well as files opened > read-only, i.e. libraries. > > Luis Miguel García wrote: > >> (sorry with my sucking english) >> >> ok, let me know if you know for me to test something with this newer >> mm kernels. >> >> by the way, yes, I'm experiencing the lockups. Not with heavy io, but >> almost when I boot and enter X. The system gets completly frozzened >> and the HD led keps on. When I reboot with a sane kernel, I found >> several files from my /home directory are deleted or filled with >> garbage. >> >> Now, I patch each kernel I use with the two patches Andrew sent to me >> and I'm having no problems. >> >> Actually i'm running 2.6.2-ck1 + nforce-patches and the temperature >> of the system is 55º while idle, and 631 while compiling (only cpu >> fan, no case fans). I don't know if it's high (some people reported >> high temperatures with this patches) but it runs very well this way. >> >> If you want for me to test some patches or something, please drop me >> a note. >> >> Thanks a lot... >> >> Luis Miguel García >> >> P.S.: by the way, why am I getting strage "arabesque" characters when >> I reply to your emails? Perhaps something with wrong encoding? >> >>> This is interesting, I will test it myself later on. At one point Len >>> admitted to owning "foreign hardware :p" so maybe this could get >>> resolved. >>> >>> Personally I haven't tried kernels with newer forcedeth drivers, >>> because I >>> can no longer explicitely set the power state of the NIC to D3. The >>> machine complains about irqs (new debugging code since forcedeth >>> v.20 or >>> so) and will not powerdown. >>> >>> On another note, have you noticed lockups of your system with heavy io? >>> Think of fsck'ing, burning cdroms, du on large dirs etc? Maybe it is >>> helpful to set up a list of boards and document what works or >>> doesn't work >>> with which kernel. For instance the lockups with heavy io seem to be >>> resolved here if I leave APIC from my kernel. >>> >>> Arjen >>> >>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Luis Miguel Garc?a wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> Hi: >>>>> >>>>> Since Andrew Morton picked up latest acpi bk updates, nforce >>>>> motherboards have problems, mainly with ethernet adapters. >>>>> Reporters say that with acpi=off, the problm gets fixed, so we >>>>> think the problem could be acpi. Some more useful info: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Luis Miguel Garc?a wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>> >> When I try to boot with latest mm series (such as actual >>>>>>> rc3-mm1 or >>>>>>> >> rc2-mm2), my nforce ethernet device doesn't works. It worked >>>>>>> in the past >>>>>>> >> with the forcedeth reverse engineered driver but now it keeps >>>>>>> for 30 or >>>>>>> >> more seconds halted (at boot) and then the network device >>>>>>> dosn't run. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Here is the dmesg of rc3-mm1. Do you want for me to test >>>>>>> something? Thanks! >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> P.S.: The ACPI related messages are larger that in rc3. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> My e100 on an nforce2 won't work in rc3-mm1. >>>>> The "acpi=off" boot parameter makes it go. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And for the record, I can boot with that kernel and save one dmesg >>>>> for you if you want. Only send me a request and I'll send it to you. >>>>> >>>>> P.S.: Sent any messages you want directly to me as i'm not >>>>> subscribed to acpi-devel. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Luis Miguel Garc?a >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> >Which part of nforce support are you talking about luis? >>>>> >>>> >>>>>> >On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>> >> Luis Miguel Garc?a <ktech@wanadoo.es> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>> > >>>>>>>>> >>> > Andrew Morton wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>> > >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> > >> >>>>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> - Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nikita. These yield some >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> performance improvements in low memory and >>>>>>>>>>>>> heavy paging situations. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>> > >>>>>>>>> >>> > Andrew, do you know if this acpi pull down has nforce >>>>>>>>> support fixed? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> It doesn't appear that way. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>> > Or perhaps it's even unnotified to the acpi team? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> I do not know. Sending them a bugzilla ID would help, if >>>>>>> such a thing exists. >>>>>>
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